DEDUPEDWho it is forA student or engineer new to world models who keeps hearing the term and cannot tell which kind of system is meant.
The problemThe phrase world model describes several different classes of system, and people rarely say which one they mean.
The outcomeYou can label a system as renderer, simulator, controller, representation, or implicit model, and explain what each predicts.
What you need first
- A web browser, for reading the online course with no signup
- pnpm, for the local commands in the README (the README does not state a Node version)
- A second terminal window, for generating PDFs while the dev server runs
Steps
- Open https://worldmodels101.com in a browser.
- Start with chapter 01, What Is a World Model?, and read the definitions table.
- Work through chapters 02 to 09 in order, using the interactive in each one.
- Answer the short quiz at the end of each chapter before moving on.
Prompt for your agent
Using the free course at https://worldmodels101.com from the NiluK/worldmodels101 repo, summarize chapter 01 and its five definitions of world model in a table with columns Definition, Predicts, and Example. Check that every example in your table appears in the course's definitions table.
Caveat. The course is about two hours in total, so the 15 minutes covers only the first successful pass through chapter 01.
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